Our Daily Work

I am in the midst of a week of vacation.  I haven't gone anywhere, I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.  I have been going about the mundane details of life as usual.  The only exception: I haven't done any "church" things.  I would like to say it has been relaxing and rejuvenating but the truth is I would rather be "working," that is, doing what God has called me to do.  I love preparing for worship.  I love talking with people.  I love proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus. That is the "work" I have been called to do.  Sometimes the thing we are called to do changes.
 When we find that we are no longer able or circumstances are such that our life's work can no longer be done in the way we have been accustomed, we have to listen carefully to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.  Sometimes our next step, our new direction, our purpose is clear and obvious.  this is, however, the exception.  More often it is a subtle nudge.  It's a shifting of energy that is nearly imperceptible.  When we calm ourselves, when we live lightly on this earth and put our trust and hope in God through Jesus Christ the way will reveal itself.  When it is discovered, it is usually painfully obvious that this was the way.
The Law of Moses and the prophets was the way for hundreds of years.  Jesus is the new way.  Jesus presence in ancient Palestine marked the division of history.  Things were one way and then Jesus seemingly made them different.  But how different?  although Jesus ushered in the New Covenant it was always about God's love for his people.  Jesus presence represented the zenith of that love, the extent to which God would go to be in right relationship with us.
This loving gesture has been made to all people of all times in all places.  This is the ultimate form of inclusiveness.  All those who have found freedom in devotion to the Lord Jesus have the task of knowing Jesus ever more and to go and make Jesus known to all the world starting where ever we are.
There will be another change in humanities relationship with God.    First, Moses and the prophets, then Jesus and the New Covenant, what's next?
Jesus will come again and we will be in the presence of God eternally.  There will be no need to seek Him, He will be with us.  We will see him.  Evil doers and all causes of sin will be removed and we will live and "work" in the way that we were truly designed.  May God bless us all as we try to get closer and closer in our daily work that we have been called to do.